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ISSUE NO. 9

April 2025

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Poetry

Love Worshipful (a Midnight Repose)

By

Jon

Jon writes from Marngoneet Correctional Centre, in Victoria.

Dan Musat for Unsplash

Some say Love is overrated

It has no relevance anymore I say

I know more than love unbound

I can make these prayerful sounds

More than Love my darlin'

I believe in you

Through separation station

In life and strange curfew

For belief is more than desire

Desire is the answer key

I await that friendly fire

When your eyes embrace me

Belief in you majestic

Realistic in all respects

In your life complicated

I must have some effect

I know I have worshipped

Your picture on the wall

Worship has much emblazonment

There I made it fall

Do not scare belief

It is pure and sane

Beyond Loves depths

I will worship once again

Your countenance pure

Your eyes so demure

A picture is a cure

I am really sure

I Love you my darlin'

Beyond this starlight

My belief relating

To more than plain sight

on this frozen midnight

to a moon above

my belief is sacrosanct

it answers to Love

and my sacred lady leads me on...

Some say Love is overrated

It has no relevance anymore I say

I know more than love unbound

I can make these prayerful sounds

More than Love my darlin'

I believe in you

Through separation station

In life and strange curfew

For belief is more than desire

Desire is the answer key

I await that friendly fire

When your eyes embrace me

Belief in you majestic

Realistic in all respects

In your life complicated

I must have some effect

I know I have worshipped

Your picture on the wall

Worship has much emblazonment

There I made it fall

Do not scare belief

It is pure and sane

Beyond Loves depths

I will worship once again

Your countenance pure

Your eyes so demure

A picture is a cure

I am really sure

I Love you my darlin'

Beyond this starlight

My belief relating

To more than plain sight

on this frozen midnight

to a moon above

my belief is sacrosanct

it answers to Love

and my sacred lady leads me on...

‘Love is Rebuilding My Life’

By Phillip

There’s irony, hypocrisy, fallacy, a vast ocean of distance to cross. The “saint”, the “sinner”, it’s lunacy, that the ignorant could save the lost.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 22

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Methfairytale

By Karie

I’m not belle of the ball, not the very least, but we have something in common, I’m in love with a beast. But the beast is not a person but a drug that I call meth, I’ve been talking to myself for hours, I’m running out of breath.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 22

1 MIN READ

Nostalgia

By Dennis

Nostalgia is a gentle haze, a soft and fading, golden maze, where time itself begins to blur, and memory’s touch is sweet and pure.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 22

1 MIN READ

Art From Inside

By Lanie

Our team was blown away by this beautiful painting.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 21

1 MIN READ